2024/06/12 by Sawan, Tambave, G., Bouly, J. L. +13
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2406.08144
This paper reports the development and testing of n-type silicon pad array detectors targeted for the Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) detector, which is an upgrade of the ALICE detector at CERN, scheduled for data taking in Run~4~(2029-2034). The FoCal detector includes hadronic and electromagnetic calorimeters, with the latter made of tungsten absorber layers and granular silicon pad arrays read out using the High Granularity Calorimeter Readout Chip~(HGCROC). This paper covers the Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD) simulations, the fabrication process, current versus voltage (IV) and capacitance versus voltage (CV) measurements, test results with a blue LED and 90Sr beta source, and neutron radiation hardness tests. IV measurements for the detector showed that 90% of the pads had leakage current below 10~nA at full depletion voltage. Simulations predicted a breakdown voltage of 1000~V and practical tests confirmed stable operation up to 500~V without breakdown. CV measurements in the data and the simulations gave a full depletion voltage of around 50~V at a capacitance of 35~pF. LED tests verified that all detector pads responded correctly. Additionally, the 1×1 cm2 pads were also tested with the neutron radiations at a fluence of 5×1013 1~MeV~neq/cm2.